Tableau on Tour - Nik Stoychev from easyJet - To the Moon and Back (every day)

The data
sources are numerous and varied. The plane often transfers the data when on the
ground.

The
co-ordinates for the planes used to have to be manually input but this is now
automated through ACARs

Nik uses
Alteryx to manipulate the data ready for visualisation in Tableau. The analysis
done feeds in to the fuel efficiency overheads as EasyJet (as with all other
airlines) have to carry at least x% of fuel (number not given) as a safety
reserve.

Flight path
accuracy used to be quite poor. It was previously enhanced with Excel. Now the
work is done in Alteryx to make the process less manual and more efficient.

Bird
strikes are shown as a slide of an Angry Bird being fired at an EasyJet plane –
best slide so far this conference.

-The
desired goal is to match bird migration patterns with flight direction so the
planes don’t get hit (and need to be serviced) and birds don’t die.

Lots of the
reporting completed is for the benefit of the regulator as much as the
business. Proving flight safety is very important and mapping the data against
normal performance under stressed conditions (ie one engine only) what would
happen?